The Cherry Orchard
Thursday June 30th, 2011 at 7 PM
Tickets are available now at our box office (open Mondays - Fridays, 9 am - 5 pm). They will soon be available at the Maine Coast Book Shop in Damariscotta.
Ranyevskaya returns more or less bankrupt after ten years abroad.
Luxuriating in her fading moneyed world and regardless of the
increasingly hostile forces outside, she and her brother snub the
lucrative scheme of Lopakhin, a peasant turned entrepreneur, to save the
family estate. In so doing, they put up their lives to auction and seal
the fate of the beloved orchard.
Set at the very start of the
twentieth century, The Cherry Orchard captures a poignant moment in
Russia’s history as the country rolls inexorably towards 1917. This
spirited new version of
Chekhov’s last play follows Andrew Upton’s acclaimed adaptations of Philistines and The White Guard.
